HEMS LONDON - Flying Doctors
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- Complete documentary 'Flying Doctors' - First Broadcast in 1994 on the BBC series 999 when the service used an Aerospatiale SA-365 Dauphin helicopter with a yellow livery sponsored by Express Newspapers.
Having spent my entire nursing career working at the Royal London, I have worked with Gareth and the other HEMS docs on numerous occasions. There was always a buzz around the hospital when you heard the helicopter coming into land and you felt proud that you got to work where the service made such a difference to people's lives. Funny seeing Gareth so young in this film and seeing the old hospital again. There's a new hospital now but Gareth is still there as a part of the team.
The work Gareth Davies has put into leading (and developing) London's pre-hospital trauma care over the past 30+ years is surely unrivalled. Long overdue a knighthood in recognition.
I am a Canadian. But I sincerely enjoy this series. The Chopper Pilots handle the landing in very tight quarters. Balls of steel! . Thank you!
It’s really interesting to see Dr.Davies age through these documentaries. Makes you realize just how much of his life has been dedicated to this service.
Look how young Gareth is! He’s adorable! What an amazing man ❤
Having been a Paramedic, having to make that PLE call is one of the hardest things we had to do. And then, on top of that, if there are family members there, we have to explain why we made that call. Thankfully, every time I've had to do that call, with a doctors permission, I always had Police to help back me up for my own safety. Because some families can get very aggressive about the call. I always feel terrible for the families. But I know, in my heart, I've done the best I could along with a Doctor advising me, that there wasn't anything else I could do. Stay Safe Everyone. From a Paramedic (Rtd), in Ontario, Canada, Jenn. 💖 💖 🇨🇦
I can imagine how frightening that would be with some family. If they were an unstable family, and then the emotion kicked in, it is could be very volatile indeed.
These men and women in our emergency services are absolutely amazing. As a nurse I know how taxing it can be on a person doing this kind of job both mentally and physically. A huge thank you to all that work so hard to try and take care of us all. May God guide your hands, brains and hearts ❤️❤️❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️
Amen
Absolutely beautiful flying by the HEMS pilots.
This doctor is amazing and full respect to him ,
A few years ago a resident in the road I live was seriously I'll,and had a number of sudden life threatening episodes, land ambulances would be called but three times I witnessed the air ambulance land.What a shock to look out my bedroom window to see what the noise was ,to then see the air ambulance fly very low past the window ,to land in the small green space behind my home .
I see them fly by my house on a daily basis, up to 10 times a day. A couple of them are NICU patients from outside hospitals coming to the Children's Hospital. As we have a Life Flight Helicopter especially equipped for NICU transfer patients. Stay Safe! From Ontario, Canada, Jenn. Former Paramedic. 💖 💖 🇨🇦
This is a fascinating 'series.' Highest praise for the medical HEMS professionals! Quirky thing, I did have one chuckle when I heard: "Nurse 1 can you sort out the team?" Perhaps Nurse 1 deserves the bigger salary.
Dr. Garett Davies is a phenomenal man and doctor, the people of London are very fortunate to have such a wonderful doctor.
Its crazy to know that he still works for London's Air Ambulance at the Royal London Hospital. I wish i could meet him and show him this video
@@GamingForLifeGFL I’m pretty sure he works in a hospital in the Isle of Man these days
@@connorbradshaw2268 No, he still works at the Royal London
@@connorbradshaw2268 - He did, part time and part time in London, but now he works full time on the IOM. 🤗
Rest In Peace to the 20 year old that was found unresponsive.
Not many people have done as much as Dr Gareth Davies has for the people of London. A trauma care pioneer.
It is so strange seeing how young he looks in this.
Ann weaver she another good Dr that works on London air ambulance
@@steuk6510 probably the best consultant at London's air ambulance
I work in a trauma centre in Kent and I’ve seen quite a few of the LAS HEMS doctors in resus with patients. I grew up watching them on programs like this and it’s quite cool to see them now I’m an adult 🙂
I believe to-date Dr Davies has spent just over half his lifetime working for the London's Air Ambulance Service, some 29years.
thank you for uploading and being able to see and appreciate the dedication and hard work of these amazing people ...
That doctor is absolutely cool as a cucumber. All professional. Looks like he's one of London's eminent physicians, and an important leader in the medical community.
Fantastic work by one and all. Gareth, you're a star. Many thanks.
Amazing work
Amazing landings, no LZ control, no sterile cockpit, doors open wow! Times have changed!
I love watching the remarkable work carried out by the emergency services, especially the medical teams, from around the world 🌍, watching this early work of our air ambulance service is quite an eye opener, the level of care is exceptional, and compared to today’s services that level of care has only got better and better as the experience and expertise of the crews has expanded. I sincerely hope I will never need their services but if I do it’s nice to know that they are the best of the best. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
The section where David Saady was speaking of the treatment he received made me smile, he nearly lost his foot and had remarkable recovery and functionality back, I , on the other hand, have arthritis in my feet and have a six inch + spike going up through my heel into my shin bone plus various screws and plates to hold it all together, my ankle can no longer bend and I have little to no sensation in my feet, and the reason I smile is because it’s nice to know that most outcomes for serious ankle trauma/conditions are good and getting better all the time, it’s a tribute to the medical staff we have in this country and we should never forget that.
HEMS is a great asset to the people of London. Years ago our ambulance medical director left Australia and spent 6 months or more observing and working with HEMS. A training program was later developed and now we have a elite team of paramedics (High Acuity Response Units) who basically perform all the procedures and treatment that we see here on HEMS. They work out of station wagons and SUVs rather than helicopters.
Dr Rashford what a legend he taught on the HEMS crew course I was on in May 2018 and impressed by the HARU model. I’ve just sent my application to QAS too since I’ve left LAS
@@DrDeep-ts4pg If you have the equivalent of CCP qualifications (and I dare say you would if you've done LAS HARU training), you'll most likely get a posting in SE Qld. As you can appreciate, flight paramedic positions are very competitive so you'll be ground bound for a few years before they even look at your FP application. They like to see that you're not just an exemplary paramedic, but an exemplary QAS member. I was on a couple of interview panels back when we began actively recruiting Brits. We offered you sunshine and sand, then give you a posting in the outback where it never rains and every day is max 35C-45C. You'll feel like our "summer" goes from September to June for the first couple of years. Best wishes with your application.
@@coover65 thanks for the heads up I’m happy with ACP2 then work my way up to CCP.
I’m currently in SA with SAAS planning to move on because I want a different clinical challenge ☺️👍🏽
@@DrDeep-ts4pg What's SAAS like? QAS is very big on professional development and in most situations management are very supportive. QAS certainly doesn't portray itself as a cash strapped service. As a Queenslander, I think you draw the short straw moving from London to S.A. I've only met a few from down there, and all say it's very boring there.
@@coover65 can’t really comment on here but I’d find the clinical aspect of QAS on par with the UK ambulance service but better :)
Shame i can’t DM you on here :D
32:49 wow how unprofessional and rude was the London ambulance guy
I didn't understand the situation there. Why was the doctor not needed?
Not seriously injured. The ambulance guy was so rude.
It is nice to have follow-up with the patients. Kudos to Danny!! A truly astonishing story!!
Lifesavers 98% of the time.. 🥳🥳 unfortunately not everyone can be saved..❣️
Dr hope in 2021 there are new series and follow apps i so glad to watch you videos and see all the hard work
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Fantastic documentary Michele 6/2021 Ohio, USA
25:23 that old siren
We all have to die, but how much death has Gareth Davies seen over the years. He is certainly one doctor I would want to see stepping out of a helicopter if I have had an accident. Saving lives every day must be an intoxicating experience.
One helicopter for the whole of London in 1995!
32:56 so what is that ambulance guys problem not wanting to be on film?? signing on and moonlighting eh...???
thanks mate loved these back in the 90s, Have you got anymore? thumbs
What an amazing doctors so professional
I think the idea if flying doctors originated in Australia. I could be wrong though. It was the idea to bring doctors to people in the outback on the cattle or sheep stations. They didn't use helicopters but planes. Those docs do a brilliant job. 👏
The Ambulance driver (probably a paramedic but I don’t think he deserves the title) who gave the doctor grief and didn’t want to be filmed made me very angry but more importantly sad 😞, there was absolutely no need for him to get bent out of shape like that, standing there hands in pockets and acting like a union shop steward arguing about demarcation of jobs, I hope he has seen this footage and feels embarrassed about his attitude, and you can guarantee if it was him or any of his family etc injured he would want the emergency personnel to act more professionally than he did, he would have done well to remember that “there is NO I in TEAM”.
Hopefully a late 80s attitude which has gone long since. Awfully unprofessional
I find it VERY sad that the some ground ambulance personnel have such a poor attitude towards the air ambulance!!! Everyone should be working for health & safety of patients!!!
Lol the ambulances look like they have no equipment inside, seems more like a transport vehicle
@@GamingForLifeGFL I think you will find that all land ambulances have lots of lockers on the ambulance interior sides
At least the land ambulance have grown up nowadays thank goodness!
Personally, it sickened me to see the ambulance attendant in the green be so rude to the doctor! Of the hundreds and hundreds of UK medical shows I've seen, that was a first!
Yep it discusted me also. Paramedics back then couldn't even do much they didn't have a lot of equipment so idk why they were being so rude to a doctor who had all the equipment necessary
It’s horrible that some ambulance worker said «this guy doesn’t have much of a chance» (or smth to that effect», so that the patient could hear it! That was horribly unprofessional and awful for the patient to experience! I hope all paramedics today have better judgment than to say something like that when a patient can hear it!!! 😖
The date in the description appears to be wrong. At 45:47 'Danny Cole' says he remembers the day, being '1st December 1993'. The text on-screen reports "Two years after accident" - That would make it 1995 at the earliest. Also the copyright at the end ( 48:23 ) is MCMXCV (1995).
Great show though, thanks for sharing. Dr Gareth Davies look so young though he was ~30 years old here.
Lol, I was looking at Michael Burke thinking this was filmed a long time ago. Then the police cars (Ford Escorts)with their old style sirens and the reg numbers on the cars……. Gosh, I feel old.
The helicopter ride for my mom in the US was $100,000 and she didn't even have a dr on it. They took her from one hospital to another one.
It’s free here in the UK
He loves GCS :)
Danny is correct. 1 helicopter is not enough for London.
36:00 whats that cpr?
Looks to me it’s an older way cpr was done. It changes every few years. There’s now something called a Lucas device that does the chest compressions correctly and continuously. It’s so easy to get totally worn out doing cpr.
Wow that was very very interesting and fascinating to watch firstly Gareth is about 30 here he stood down from HEMS 2years after this program he's still Senior Consultant if not a Professor of medicine he never changes he's kind of doctor I wouldn't mind coming round to find standing over me such a nice chap disappointed he didn't win Pride of Britain Award for his services during London bombing 14years ago a guy from Olympics won it instead may be we should put him and Dr Ann Weaver in Queen's honours list so many get it for doing bugger all yet these 2 have decades of medical knowledge and skills shameful.
What was very interesting is in the whole medical aspect from all Emergency Services how things have changed in 27years the uniforms, vehicles, lights and sirens, medical equipment from the CPR chest pump I didn't no they used it back then now they use same device except patient is put on board and this pump is strapped down leaving hands free the person sets rhythm etc in the machine it does it automatically. Also scene of what I call lazy CPR around 36minuets with the jumper surprised he died as grass soft maybe landed in such way it caused catastrophic non viable injuries PLE is patient life extinct now they just say time of death. I joined St John's ambulance 2years after in 1996 it was not taught that way we were taught to be extreamely brutally fast push down until ribs break that way you knew u were doing it correctly by pushing down good 3cm to 5cm depending on person, weight and size etc 30 chest compressions to two rescue breaths now its just 100 chest compressions a minute with the most annoying timer they use we were taught only way to do it was in complete silence to help person concentration of what they are doing any noise other than intermittent chat from crew members of the patients status other than this means its distraction. The hand held Defibrillator pads on to gel pads placed on chest started being phased out about 17 to 20years ago to ones like in portable defibrillator. Ambulances were extremely very very basic up to 80s when it changed from ambulance men and women to various stages they have now healthcare assistant is not only ones that drive non urgent ambulance transport they are also on emergency ambulance as well that one that was rude to Gareth was HCA to become a Paramedics its almost if not very similar training and same amount years to be fully qualified as a Doctor this is why when u dial 999 they need all the correct information and details required so the ambulance control handler can assess if ambulance sent to who ever be fine with HCA and Technicians or combination of Paramedic and Technician who also drives the vans due to the unforgiving society we live in there's added skills to be learnt as well as more security checks and vetting yet they work ridiculous hours with no proper eating/drinking and toilet breaks personally the fitness test they got rid of either fully or partially needs re done not just hospital but people caring in communities some are so horrendously obese, very unfit, sweating/panting its not very nice I've had some nice ones loads with negative attitudes mainly due to my constant frequent regular Idiopathic Seizures then there is others who seem fine but there body language tells all ones I also struggle with is ones whose birth tongue isn't UK maybe that's another thing that needs upped if English isn't the native tongue as that's last thing anyone needs when not very well using precious very little energy left in oneself trying work out what's being said. Its been in news of medical and community staff being sacked due to abusing patients and or over dosing them as can't understand what there asked to do etc one carer from Indonesia got jailed for 6months for assaulting Dementia patient its sickening really is.
Back to 999 program I absolutely loved watching this with my late mother and late grandmother its what got me interested in first aid even saved myself few times when choking on my own after the episode of a lady who was choking said she leaned over dining chair to stimulate Heimlich Manoeuvre after grabbing towel amazing how our bodies gives its secrets to give us burst energy like fight or flight response I no Michael Burke is in his late 70s to early 80s but remake of this wonderful awesome program can be made considering how in 30years how advance technology and other equipment, improvement of way Emergency services respond, are dressed, how medically advanced the skills, equipment used etc has changed even now there still learning new things, new equipment to try and use who would of thought emergency surgery can be done out in community now did they ever think of it 20years ago probably not even giving blood transfusions its mind boggling its getting so advanced everyone be needing to go out armed and ready for that what if moment I do it due to my very severe disabilities I keep a emergency care plan with everything from basics to how every day things are done to very important things ie Religion, blood group, medications I am on, allergies and reactions, past and present diagnosis etc etc list endless but vital to have any way thanks for great trip down memory lane
I don’t have time to read that huge comment, but it’s called a Lucas device. It keeps steady chest compressions going because as we know it’s very difficult to keep correct chest compressions going. I was surprised that if u worked on ambulance that u didn’t know what the Lucas device is called. I always try to educate others and educate our patients.
The training time for a doctor is significantly longer than that of a Paramedic. Don't get me wrong, Paramedics are amazing, but they do not quite have the range of clinical knowledge that a doctor has, hence the increased training. 5 years of university + X years of further training (anywhere from 5-8 years) is needed to fully train a doctor, whereas a Paramedic will likely only need a 3 year university course to become qualified.
Dr Davis looks as if he’s about 17.
Jesus, those blokes would get booted out on their arses if they did the leaning out of an open cockpit door with the airframe still moving these days!
As someone with a bad fear of heights (or more specifically leaning over a railing etc. to my doom), that part made my anxiety spike
@@mariaenvoikertoa I experience the same as you with heights, I hate them.
Why dont the pilots and Doctors wear helmets.
That's a RAINBOW 🌈 World 🌎
Thank you.
What a waste in resources when thieve air teams get sent to an “emergency” that the people are totally fine. Each trip I would guess is thousands of $ and it takes the team out of commission for a real emergency-around 34:00
What if all other ground units were taken? Plenty of reasons why that’s just 1 good example
OH LOOK ,A GAGGLE OF POLICE CARS !
It’s not two years o;d ya liar
When you have a bad case of explosive Diarrhea in burning acid liquid form as its impossible to shit without it burning. .
I once stud on a Lego brick not once but 3 times in a row while walking to the bathroom in the pitch black .
The word is “oriented” no extra syllable, and if you had a conversation, you conversed, Sorry, but it’s a pet peeve….There are no such words as “orientated” or “conversated”!! As a person whose chronic disease has kicked my brain to the curb, love your language while you still can. (And I do hope our good dictionaries do not add these in, because do we really need to “dumb down” anymore than we already have? This is not about what an incredibly important job you have nor what a great person you are for doing that job!